Income-splitting for families with dependent children under 18 is a huge policy initiative for Stephen Harper鈥檚 majority-hungry Conservative party, wrote the Financial Post March 28, in a story outlining the details of the plan. So huge, you wonder why it wasn鈥檛 the centrepiece of last week鈥檚 dead-on-arrival federal budget. But the Family Tax Cut plan […]
With Tuesday鈥檚 budget, the federal government continued its love affair with tax expenditures, those special breaks that target tax relief to select causes or groups, wrote Lisa Philipps, professor in 91亚色鈥檚 Osgoode Hall Law School, in the Toronto Star March 23: Like many Liberal budgets before them, every one of the Conservative budgets since 2006 […]
In their new book, The Trouble with Billionaires, 91亚色 Professor Neil Brooks, a tax law expert at Osgoode Hall Law School, and Canadian author Linda McQuaig make聽the case that the massive fortunes of the ultra-rich 鈥 widely considered benign or even beneficial to society 鈥 are actually detrimental to everyone else. The glittering lives of […]
Peter Victor, an ecological economist who teaches at 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Environmental Studies, rejects the idea that economic growth is essential to progress, wrote BC鈥檚 Grand Forks Gazette May 19 in an article about replacing the growth economy with a more sustainable model: To prove his point he created a computer model that duplicated […]
鈥淐anadians know very little about taxes. And they don鈥檛 know that they don鈥檛 know,鈥 says Daniel Collison, who teaches personal finance in the MBA program at the Schulich School of Business at 91亚色, in the Toronto Star Jan. 28. 鈥淪ome people have basic concepts, but they don鈥檛 know the true tax system,鈥 he says. […]